Magazine article

[Stan Brown]

I think the article does a good job of navigating
applicability versus allegory. (You'll remember
Tolkien's brief diatribe in the preface to LotR.) It
also identifies numerous experiences that gave him
ideas, and there are several interesting photos.

"How J.R.R. Tolkien Came to Write the Stories of 'The
Rings of Power'"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/jrr-
tolkien-write-stories-rings-power-180980686/
Refreshingly, it's not behind a paywall. Hopefully
that's true globally, not just in the US.

Final sentence:
"The key message of Númenor, as timely now as ever, is
that the lust for power leads to wholly avoidable
disaster."

--
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA
https://BrownMath.com/
Tolkien FAQs: http://Tolkien.slimy.com (Steuard Jensen)
Tolkien letters FAQ:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/pr6sa7u
FAQ of the Rings:
https://BrownMath.com/general/ringfaq.htm
Encyclopedia of Arda:
https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm